Remix.run Logo
johnyzee 3 days ago

You can process wheat into flour at home. You cannot process sugar cane into table sugar without an industrial plant.

nobody9999 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

>You can process wheat into flour at home. You cannot process sugar cane into table sugar without an industrial plant.

That statement seemed off, so I poked around a little and, yes you can make granulated sugar from sugar cane at home[0].

[0] https://shuncy.com/article/how-to-make-sugar-from-sugarcane-...

Suppafly 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>You cannot process sugar cane into table sugar without an industrial plant.

That's obviously false.

johnyzee 2 days ago | parent [-]

The refined sugar you buy in the store ('table sugar') is clarified with phosphoric acid and bleached using a number of other chemicals. In addition to this, it goes though a number of other industrial processing steps that you would not be able to perform at home. Hence, it is 'highly processed'.

Suppafly 2 days ago | parent [-]

So you can make it at home using scary chemicals that you can easily buy online. You can't just say 'industrial processing' and 'chemicals' and be believed.